Far and Away

Right now you can watch Far and Away in Australia on BINGE and Foxtel Now — and it moves faster than most of the genre's competition. The length is exactly right for the story it is telling — nothing rushed, nothing dragged out. A 7/10 rating says what the writing already makes obvious: this one works. Tom Cruise anchors the chaos with real screen presence. Start it on BINGE whenever you need something guaranteed to land.

There is a reason Far and Away keeps coming up in conversation. The choreography in Far and Away serves the story instead of interrupting it. A young free-spirited Irish woman from an affluent Protestant family spontaneously befriends a street-smart commoner cheated by her family’s hostile land takeovers. They escape to America, ready to take advantage of the 19th century Oklahoma land rush. Tom Cruise and Nicole Kidman lead a cast that gives the action real stakes. Far and Away came out in 1992. The action sequences are expensive-looking without drawing attention to their own budget — they serve the story rather than interrupting it. There is real craft here, even in the moments that do not fully land.

Far and Away is the kind of thing you put on to unwind and find yourself sitting forward twenty minutes in. If you have run out of similar titles to watch, this is a strong next pick. A contained runtime means every scene is doing real work. Tom Cruise's performance is the throughline that holds the bigger action elements together. Give it twenty minutes and decide — most viewers do not stop there.